110 Stories

This is my first post- what a cool thread. My dad gave me my first 110 when I was 10 or so. He had one in the toolbox in his plumbing van. I never saw him skin a deer or gut a fish- this was a work knife. He used it to ream the insides of 1/2 inch copper water pipe after cutting it with a tubing cutter. When he gave me mine it was extra great because it was engraved with the name of the contractor he worked for. He got it for so many accident-free days on the job. It was the only Christmas gift he ever gave me (usually my mom put his name on the cards...). I wore it on my belt just like the Duke Boys on the tv show popular when I was a kid. How many people wanted a cool belt knife like Bo and Luke! I still have it and always will. I also have several other 110's, 112's and just got my model 55. What a cool pocket version of my favorite big folder. Thanks Buck!
 
The 55 was far too small for me to carry. I need a good hunk of steel, brass and wood like the 110 to feel right. My 110 is still new, only 6 or 7 months old. But i've been through a seperation with my ex fiance, a broken back, and many a night out in the woods with that thing in my pocket or right close to me, and it's never let me down.

This is the knife that stopped the ravenous desire to buy about a million tactical-g10-latest steel-high end locking-one handed knives ever made. But don't bug me if i end up blowing a good chunk of cash on a few of those...i'm a knife knut after all...

One good old lockback is all i really need. The knife i first received at about 6 years old from my dad was a knock-off 110. And now i have the real deal, and it's more than enough for me. I've even got dad using the little 55 for me.

I love these friggen Bucks.
 
I spent the better part of the morning working with the 110. Had to frame the downstairs bathroom, cut the new washer and dryer boxes into 2X2 squares and put up some sheetrock. The Hunter loves construction work!

I don't like to keep my knives "scary sharp" (not even sure I know what that means?) because it's fairly impractical for my needs but I can usually shave hair with them. Well, after the few hours work with the 110, it only required 20 seconds of stealing to get it to shave again. How's that for 420! The thing I love most is that the blades are tough, no micro-chips like some of the new super steals. The handle shape also lends itself to work. It's a handful and can be used for a couple of hours without fatigue.

Don't get me wrong, I like light one-handers as much as the next knut but when it comes time to work, I'll pick the 110 everytime. ft
 
Hi!!!
My name is Marina, I´m Marcelo di Marco´s 15 year old daugther. I´m from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I have some rather interesting stories about my buck 110.
My dad bought it to me as a present when I started singing at the Colón Teathre Children´s Choir, when I was 10, and also gave me a letter which said that this knife wold stay with me for my whole life. I think that´s actually what a classic knife is done for, isn´t it? Mine´s a 110 FG, from 2001.
Well, after some time, I had just had an asado (barbaque) at my club, when someone (I don´t remember wether it was my mother or my sister) ocasionally dropped it to the floor. As a result of that regreting accident, the tip was a little bit broken.
Anyway, my story has a happy ending: a friend from the club (an OLD friend, I must admit), offered to pulish the tip, so that it wouldn´t be tipless. After about two weeks anxious wondering and nervous waiting, our friend (God bless dear Oscar) came with the beloved 110, almost as new.
So, you see, I´m now taking it on my holiday to the Atlantic Coast, so I´ll have one friend less to miss while I´m away.
Bye for now, guys! See you soon!
A question: is there another girl in this forum? Try inviting your daughters!!!
 
That is a wonderful story Marina. Thank you for posting it.

Welcome to the forum!!!

My wife carries a Buck 112 in her hunting pack. And a smaller Buck 170 in her purse.

I wish I knew Spanish, but I gather that your father is a writer. I will look for his books in english.
 
Welcome to the forum Marina! My wife carries a Buck 373 (a small pocket knife) in her purse. I think she is a bit put off by the size of the 110. I plan on passing mine down to my grandsons when they are old enough to handle them properly. I think your father did a wonderful thing by giving you what will be a keepsake for you. I'm sure everytime you look at your Buck 110 in the future you will think of him. :)
 
Thanks for your opinions, fellas! And also thanks for your warm welcome!
My mother has a Buck knife, too. It´s a 112, 110´s baby. It´s pretty nice, endeed.
Dear LFH, my dad was touched by the fact that you know him. The web´s amazing, isn´t it? I don´t think his books are in English, but I´d try to translate some parts of his books for you, if you wish so.
Another 110 story: not very "wild", I must say. It´s about a program we saw on the History Channel (I really don´t know the name in Enlish), in which you saw the procces of the 110 in factory. It was quite amazing to find out that almos the entire procces is hand made, and that every machine requires the help of a human operator as well. So 110 is a hand-made industrial knife. isn´t it just lovely?
 
I just stumbled on this forum while looking for information on the Buck 110. I bought one in 1975 when I got a job as a firefighter with the US Forest Service in Southern California. All the "oldtimers" carryed one at the time and it appeared to be standard issue. I remember that it was particularly recomended for cutting fire hose in the event you had to move a pumpe truck pronto. I carried it for about three seasons. I eventually made my way to Oregon and worked as a wilderness ranger. While taking a break one day i set it on a stump and left it there when I took off again. By then it was pretty well used with a broken tip. While looking in my knife box last week I found the well used leather paint stained sheath that held it. Well, I thought the sheath ought to be holding another knife. I just bought an old 110 on ebay that ought to be aperfect match.
 
I finally sent my brother's 112 in for a sharpening and a clean up after all these years, I just got it back today. It almost brought tears to my eyes, the job that the folks at Buck did on this knife. It had been in the sheath from 1984 to 2000, after living a hard life before that time. The blade was butter knife dull, as well as loose, the brass tarnished to unrecognizability, and the wood was almost black. When I opened the box my first thought was that they had send me a new knife. But no, it was the same Buck 112 that my brother carried 'till the day he passed away, and that my dad had in a box for 16 years. The deepest of the knicks are still there, the wood shows faint signs of shrinkage, and there is still no nail knick in the Buck/.112./USA blade, it is the same knife, now with even more character. It is razor sharp, polished and cleaned inside and out, the blade is tight, and it shines like new. I want to publicly thank the team at Buck for doing this for me, this knife will be carried (on occation) with the respect it deserves, it will be used as any good Buck knife should be, and it will have an awesome story behind it for anyone who will listen. I can't wait to get it out in the world and show it off. Thank you Buck team, thank you very much. You have made my Christmas.
Jim Nevill

Edited to add: I went back and re-read my original post, it was on 12/18/2004, almost exactly a year ago. Weird.
 
I carried a Buck 110 in it's black leather sheath in Viet Nam. it rained almost every day and my Buck grew green funk on the brass. I used to shine up the brass bolsters with brasso. they were like gold mirrors.

When I came back to the world, Customs asked if we had any weapons. Me being a clown, I said "I got my Buck Knife." The Bastard told me to give it up and he took it. Made me so mad I didn't tell him about the Colt US 1911 I had stashed in the bottom of my duffle bag.

That been thirty five years. I never got my Buck Knife back and they ain't getting thier gun back till they return my Knife!
 
Marcelo di Marco said:
Another 110 story: not very "wild", I must say. It´s about a program we saw on the History Channel (I really don´t know the name in Enlish), in which you saw the procces of the 110 in factory. It was quite amazing to find out that almos the entire procces is hand made, and that every machine requires the help of a human operator as well.
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...:eek: :eek: :eek: ...

I think I'm going to have to hunt through The History Channel's listings...

I think you can also buy each episode on cassette...Anybody know anything about that???

Thank You Ms. di Marco! ;)
 
This has got to be the greatest thread ever! As mentioned in another thread, I bought my first 110 from the base PX on Fort Stewart Georgia in 1976. I had just been assigned to the 92nd Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy). We were a construction battalion with explosives, demolition, and combat engineer training. I used that knife everyday. Just about everyone had one. It stripped wire, cut wood, cut demo (c-4), det cord, you name it. I kept it razor sharp too. We all had a thing for being able to flick the blade open quickly with a flip of your thumb. Lotsa thumb cuts till ya got it right too! When I got transferred to Fort Riley Kansas, the guys there weren't so much into knives and a couple of them thought it was cool how I could flip it out just a fast as a switchblade. They asked me to show them how to do it and one guy (George) wanted to try it first. So he took the knife, did it slow once, then really fast the second time. One problem, he let go! Where did it end up? Stuck right in my sternum! Wuuufff! Man did that hurt. Bled like a stuck pig. Didn't need stitches luckily. Had a rope looking scar for a long time till it finally thinned out and disappeared over the years. I was glad it was just the tip and not a slice cut! Wouldn't ya know it, he became my best friend there and ended up marrying my sister. Well, thats my little story! Keep 'em coming!
 
I was just over at my ex-wife's house. I was looking for tools to repair an ac vent and guess what I found in her tool box... my most abused old 'double dot' .110. ! The back lever sticks up a little, re-tipped at least once, over sharpened and the only one I ever had with blade wiggle. It has two notches filed across the spine so I would be sure to get mine back from the doorman at a bar I used to frequent in the late 70s.
It is now officially retired at home. MY home.:p
 
chickentrax said:
...:eek: :eek: :eek: ...

I think I'm going to have to hunt through The History Channel's listings...

I think you can also buy each episode on cassette...Anybody know anything about that???

Thank You Ms. di Marco! ;)
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Hi, guys!!! I´m buck (ha, ha)!!!
Listen, Chickentrax, I´ve made it easier for you to find the cassette, if it exists -I hope so. My dad and I found the name of the program in English. It´s called "HANDS ON HISTORY" -actually, it doesn´t have very much to do with History, but I guess we all know History Channel LOVES weapons.
The host is Ron Hazelton, a very interesting, sort of fat, beared man, whom we all envy very much, as he´s done a 110 for himself, during the program!!!
My dad says that, apart from the previous facts, watching a production about the 110 allows you to watch Buck´s old factory, as the program was made in 2003, before they moved from El Cajon.
We hope it will be useful for you all to find ths edition of "Hands on History", in which Chuck shows to the host (envy) old Buck knives made by hand by his dad and his grandpa.
Next time I´ll be sending you some pictures of my dad´s last 110, which we found in a weapon show. Well, in fact, he had seen it in another exposition, and hunted it all around Buenos Aires to be able to buy it. You´ll soon find out WHY!!!!
Best regards,
Marina and Marcelo di Marco
 
Marina & Marcelo,
One of the things I regret not doing before I moved away from the San Diego area was to tour the Buck facility out in El Cajon. Although they have moved up to Post Falls, Idaho, there is a part of me that will always associate Buck with El Cajon and San Diego. Not until I read a history of the company did I learn that the family had long ties to both Idaho and Washington State. I currently live in the Yakima Valley of central Washington State (the last place Hoyt Buck lived before he passed away) about two hours from the new factory. I've already informed my wife that I would like to visit the new factory this summer. I will try to take lots of photos and post them here on the forum and also give my impressions when I get back.
Mike
 
Hey Folks...

Let me say that I am totally enjoying this thread.

I have a 112 story for you.

We had a kitchen junk drawer that was full of everything from wire ties and bread bag clips to pliers and assorted tools. Well ours had knives in it as well.

I was about 14 years old and was snorkeling in the channel created by a rock jetty as an entrance to Mission Bay. I wanted to have a knife on me so I took a small folder out of the "junk" drawer. At some point that knife fell out of my bathing suit pocket into the ocean. I thought no problem...it was just junk.

I told my father about it when he got home from work and he informed me that was a pre-production prototype for the 112 that he had had for years. He did not punish me as it was in the junk drawer and he was kicking himself for that. I appreciated his view very much at the time....

Wonder what that knife would be worth today???

Mike, come for the tour. We have integrated a brand new manufacturing philosophy that our new facility is designed around. Lean Cellular Manufacturing. Fast, Flexible and really depends on the employees in each cell. They love it and we have come up to full speed and quality so much faster then we would have under the old assembly line system.

As to the History Channel...I was traveling that day so missed being a part of it.

Again this is a really fun thread to read.
 
:) I have been carrying 110 full time since I graduated in 1984.I have skinned deer ,squirels ,beaver ,coon and used it for everything imaginable, but the fuuniest story I can remember was when I was in the army we went to England for about a month to do a job .When we were there we made freinds whith a couple civilian brits working on the base . One day a guy took a buddy and I for a tour of the rest of the base . While we were walking we met up with a bobby buddy of his so we stop to chat ,the guy I was with and I started cleaning our finger nails with our 110's like we always do ,when we left our freind said we were lucky we were on U.S. soil. We looked at him and asked what the heck did we do wrong , he said they just band all knives with a blade 2 inches or longer. That explained the nervous look on his face. We just laughed becuase we nver really thought of them as dangerous before.
 
Marcelo di Marco said:
Hi, guys!!! I´m buck (ha, ha)!!!
Listen, Chickentrax, I´ve made it easier for you to find the cassette, if it exists -I hope so. My dad and I found the name of the program in English. It´s called "HANDS ON HISTORY" -actually, it doesn´t have very much to do with History, but I guess we all know History Channel LOVES weapons.
The host is Ron Hazelton, a very interesting, sort of fat, beared man, whom we all envy very much, as he´s done a 110 for himself, during the program!!!
My dad says that, apart from the previous facts, watching a production about the 110 allows you to watch Buck´s old factory, as the program was made in 2003, before they moved from El Cajon.
We hope it will be useful for you all to find ths edition of "Hands on History", in which Chuck shows to the host (envy) old Buck knives made by hand by his dad and his grandpa.
Next time I´ll be sending you some pictures of my dad´s last 110, which we found in a weapon show. Well, in fact, he had seen it in another exposition, and hunted it all around Buenos Aires to be able to buy it. You´ll soon find out WHY!!!!
Best regards,
Marina and Marcelo di Marco
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I saw that show, it was very good. Welcome to the forums and I must say that your English is excellent. I wish my Spanish was as good as your English.

Que les vaya bonito,

Bill
 
:cool: :D ...Welcome to the forum Marcelo...I wish my english was as good as your's and I've lived here all my life...:D ...Again...Welcome...
 
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